Happy to announce that now it is possible to stick single sticky note on Android phone’s home screen using the Notezilla app.

What is Notezilla?

Notezilla is a sticky notes app for Windows, Android and iPhone/iPad. Notezilla lets you set reminders to sticky notes, attach sticky notes to documents, websites, organize them in folders, sync notes between devices, send notes to other contacts and a lot more. Learn more about Notezilla – https://www.conceptworld.com/Notezilla

Earlier versions of Notezilla (for Android) allowed ‘Notes Browser‘ widget to be placed on phone screen. Meaning, you could view list of notes (Recent, Due, Starred etc). With the new, latest version (2.2.3), we have added one more widget called ‘Sticky Note‘. Using this widget you can stick individual sticky note to phone’s home screen.

This article will cover details of all the changes we made in the new update.

What’s New?

Faster sync of sticky notes across all devices: Yes, you read that right! Notezilla on Windows now sync every minute. This improved frequency gives the advantage of faster updates on all the other devices too. Receiving sticky notes from your contacts is also faster now. This will help improve productivity and efficiency of tasks.

Hide notes on Show Desktop (Win+D): Your desktop sticky notes will no longer disappear when using the “Show Desktop” (Win+D) feature of Windows. Using the newly added “Hide notes on Show Desktop” (Win+D) feature, if you disable this particular option, then the sticky notes will always remain visible on your desktop when using the “Show Desktop” (Win+D) feature. A small yet very handy feature.

Blank notes deleted permanently: Unlike the earlier version where a blank note deleted was sent to the trash folder/memo board, the new version permanently deletes blank notes. The trash memoboard doesn’t fill up unnecessarily.

Default Hotkeys now modified: The default hotkeys of Notezilla have been modified as they were conflicting with shortcut keys of other popular apps like Windows. You can now use the Hotkeys along with other apps, without any disturbance.

Product Notifications: Product news, updates and offers will be shown from within the app, automatically when needed.

Sticky note skins with better gradient: The “Classic Gradient” skin has better gradient now. This improves the look of your sticky note making it more attractive.

We have improved

We have fixed many bugs since our previous version based on suggestions and feedback from users. Because we believe in consistently improving over time.

Updated app skin for “Due Date Window”: The overall look of the app has been improved to make it more comfortable to read the dates inside the ‘Set Due Date’ window. This makes it easier to set reminders to your Notezilla sticky notes

Easier formatting of checklist sticky notes: Earlier’ when a checklist note was updated from the phone, the formatting (strike-through) of that note on Windows desktop was frequently lost after sync. This problem will no longer occur.

Other bugs fixed:

Day light saving issue fixed.

The first 2 columns of a memoboard sometimes lost the icons after sync. This is fixed.

The trash prompt message did not appear on top of the sticky note when trashed from reminder window in the earlier version. This is fixed.

Improved usability and User Interface in many prominent areas.

You can check out the latest update by downloading and installing it from here.

Also, this new update is free for all our existing customers.

We hope you love Notezilla even more after trying out the update. Feedback and suggestions invited.

The trick to move specific type of files (only pictures in our case) to another folder. Moving means, deleting from the source folder after copying it to destination folder. Later we can simply delete the destination folder. This way we are achieving our goal to delete specific type of files from whole folder tree.

Steps to delete specific type of files

Go to Windows File Explorer, select the files from the source folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:

Go to the destination folder, click Copywhiz–> Paste Advanced. The Advanced Settings window will open. Type the name or type of files to copy under “Include Files”.

Tip: You can even preview the files that will be copied before actually copying them, to stay safe. Just click on the “Preview” button in the bottom right corner.

Click OK. You will see the Copywhiz main window. Under the paste options select, “Paste and delete original (move)”. Click on “Paste Now”.

Your files will be copied to the destination folder all at once and also automatically deleted from the source folder.

You can now delete the source folder since your required files have been stored/copied safely.

Thus Copywhiz easily helped copy my files from a large number of folders and sub-folders. Thus saving me from the tedious task of scrolling through multiple files and folders.

This post will show you how to exclude certain folders and continue copying files from the rest.

Excluding specific folders

Ability to exclude folders when copying files has several advantages. You can save disk space. You can get rid of unwanted and temporary files. You save time copying and backing up files. Handling of smaller file set is easier.

Let us see how to do this using Robocopy, and an alternative software , Copywhiz which does the same thing in a much user friendly manner.

What is Copywhiz?

Enhance your file-copy experience with Copywhiz as it lets you have more flexibility and control over the file-copying process. Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:
• Copy only new or modified files
• Easily pick files by name, extension, folder etc from bunch of folders
• Copy files to multiple folders/computers
• Copy files from multiple folders and paste them at once
• Pick files from multiple folders and compress in single .zip file
• Schedule file backups
• Several more hidden nuggets designed to make your file-copy task easier.

An image depicting one of the features of Copywhiz

Steps to exclude specific folders when copying files

Using Robocopy

Robocopy Source Destination/XD dirs [dirs]… command lets us to specify a list of directories (folders) containing strings to be excluded. These strings are not entered directly in the command switch. They are one or more text files that list the strings to be excluded.

For Ex: To copy files from “projects” folder to the folder “backup”, by excluding certain type of folders, say, the ones having your personal information, the following command line will be used:

Robocopy c:\projects c:\backup xd list-of-excluded-folders

But these Robocopy commands are not straightforward. System administrators may be able to use. Robocopy is quite difficult for common users. Instead, let me show you an easier and faster way to do this.

Using Copywhiz

Watch a short video describing this feature:

Video Transcription

1. Go to Windows File Explorer, select the files from the source folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:

2. Go to the destination folder, right click and choose Copywhiz–> Paste Advanced. The Advanced Settings dialogue box will open.

3. You can include or exclude files/folders to be copied by typing their names, file extensions or folder names. You can then select the “Exclude folders” option. You can also preview the list of files that will be copied and files that will be skipped by clicking on the Preview button. After confirming, press the OK button in the Advanced Settings dialog box.

4. Click on “OK” and then “Paste Now” to complete file copying.

Conclusion

Copywhiz lets you choose which type of files to copy and which to ignore – i.e, it lets you to do ‘Selective File Copy’. Pick only those files and folders that are important and avoid the ones not required with Copywhiz. Easily filter files by name, extension, folder etc. from a bunch of folders.

Complete big file copy tasks with just a few clicks and save manual effort with Copywhiz.

This post will tell you how to send a sticky note to other PC computers in Windows using it’s IP address. We will be using Notezilla for this purpose.

What is Notezilla?

Notezilla is a professional, elegant & highly rated sticky notes app for Windows & Phones (Android, iOS, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone etc). It can help you organize your life by keeping all the notes, tasks & reminders that you may need when-ever and where-ever you are. Check out Notezilla’s homepage.

Send sticky notes through LAN

One really helpful feature of Notezilla is that you can send sticky notes to any contact across the globe. Your contact may be in the same network (LAN) or over the Internet. You can also send sticky notes to a group of contacts at once.

This is really easier and faster than communication through mail. Also, to maintain privacy & security, the sticky notes will be sent internally over the local network using the recipient’s computer name or IP address.

Sending notes through the IP address is a better option when you have a lot of computers to send notes to. But what if you don’t know the names of all the computers? Just specify the IP address. You may even want to send the note to a particular computer rather than a particular person, thereby ensuring that the note reaches the computer regardless of who is using it.

Watch a short video that shows how you can do this:

To send a Notezilla sticky note using the IP address:

Select a sticky note in Notezilla, right click on its title/toolbar and choose ‘Send To->Computer’ from the menu.

A ‘Computers’ window will be displayed. Click on the ‘Manage Computers’ button to add a new computer or edit the existing ones.

Click on the ‘Add Computer’ button and add computer details in the text box. The format will be – First name, Last name, computer name. Here, instead of computer name you can specify IP address also.

Click on ‘Next -> Finish’ and finally select the ‘Send Now’ option.

Your sticky notes will be instantly sent to the computer(s).

Allow Notezilla through Windows Firewall

Here are some points to ensure that the sticky note reaches successfully on another PC.

Notezilla should be installed on another PC also in order to receive the sticky note.

If you are sending note from Computer A to Computer B. Then Computer A should have Computer B in its computers list. This ensures that firewall is configured correctly. On Computer B, go to a sticky note and select “Send To Computers” and ensure that you have added Computer A. Only then you must attempt to send note from Computer A to Computer B.

To troubleshoot further, make sure to configure your PC firewall to allow running of Notezilla. The firewall on the PC might sometimes not allow to send or receive notes.

You can search for firewall in Windows search box and you will see “Allow an app through Windows Firewall”. Choose this option and enable Notezilla. If Notezilla is not listed, then click on ‘Allow another app’ and add Notezilla.

If you are using any other Firewall tool (usually included with Anti-Virus software) then you will have to configure that firewall.

Make sure you do this on both sending and receiving computer.

This way your contacts will receive the sticky note right on their desktop if they are a Notezilla user. If not, they will receive the note as an email. The note will reach safely even if the receiving computer is turned off.

This video will tell you how to sync and access Internet bookmarks and history from all the major browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer all in a single place using RecentX.

What is RecentX?

RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!

Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even more faster.

Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.

It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can quickly pick & paste them again.

Steps to copy only changed files (new and modified)

Using Robocopy

The Robocopy command Robocopy Source [Destination] /XO :[YYYYMMDD] copies all Source files changed on or after the specified date only. This command-line option allows you to update files that have changed.

For Ex: To copy all the files in the directory ‘E:data’ that are modified on or after 1 st January 2018 to the folder ‘E:\backup’, the following command line will be used:

However, commands like Robocopy are not straightforward. System administrators may be able to use. But common users will find it difficult. Instead, I will show you how to do it very quickly/easily using Copywhiz.

Using Copywhiz

Here is a short video that depicts how to do it easily in Windows using Copywhiz:

Video Transcription

1. Go to Windows File Explorer, select the files from the source folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:

2. Right-click inside the destination folder where you wish to copy the files and select Copywhiz–>Paste Advanced.

This post will help you in excluding certain files of your choice from being copied.

Why exclude specific files?

By default, any copy program will copy everything (all the files) from the folder that you specify as the source. But, at times, we would like to filter and include only specific files. For Ex: Copy only pictures and not videos, only source code files and not object files, all documents except PDF files and so on.

In this particular post, we will talk about this by comparing Robocopy to an alternative software , Copywhiz.

What is Copywhiz?

Enhance your file-copy experience with Copywhiz as it lets you have more flexibility and control over the file-copying process. Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

However, Robocopy commands are not really straightforward. System administrators may be able to use. But Robocopy is really confusing for common users.

Let me now show you an easier and faster way to do this.

Using Copywhiz

Copywhiz makes this very user friendly. Watch a short video depicting this feature:

Video Transcription

1. Go to Windows File Explorer, select the files from the source folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:

2. Go to the destination folder, right click and choose Copywhiz–> Paste Advanced. The Advanced Settings dialogue box will open.

3. You can include or exclude files/folders to be copied by typing their names, file extensions or folder names. You can also preview the list of files that will be copied and files that will be skipped by clicking on the Preview button. After confirming, press the OK button in the Advanced Settings dialog box. All the required files will be copied successfully.

Conclusion

Copywhiz lets you to choose which type of files to copy & which to ignore – i.e, it lets you to do ‘Selective File Copy’. Easily filter files by name, extension, folder etc from a bunch of folders. You can complete big file copy tasks with few clicks & save manual effort with Copywhiz.

This post will tell you how you can search for text within a sticky note in Windows using Notezilla, a sticky notes app for Windows & Phones (Android, iOS, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone etc).

Sticky notes in Notezilla are not designed only for writing short notes. You can even use them as an alternative to Notepad. Notezilla allows you to work on sticky notes that are as wide as your display monitor. This way you can use sticky notes to also store large content such as reference material, web snippets, scripts, drafts etc. You don’t have to worry about saving your collected data to separate files.

While you store large content into the notes, you may find it difficult to manually search for a particular word or keyword in the long note. Say, you want to replace or remove a particular word but can’t find it.

This is where Notezilla will help you. You just have to press the “Ctrl+F” key from within a sticky note. A search box will automatically open wherein you can type the text you are looking for. The search results will be highlighted in the note. You can even right click inside a sticky note and select the “Find” option to do the same.
The results will be filtered as and when you keep typing.

If the word you are looking for is repeated several times in the note, just click on the right facing arrow and the next place where it appears is highlighted.

Notezilla thus saves a lot of your time and efforts on searching for text.

But do you take advantage of incremental backups when backing up your files?

The Incremental Backup concept

An incremental backup is a type of backup that only copies files that have changed since the previous backup.

For example, if a full backup was performed today, the next incremental backup will only take all changed files since today’s backup. This is really helpful to reduce your time spent on taking backups and avoiding repetition of files with the same content.

In this post, we will show you how to do incremental backup using Copywhiz.

What is Copywhiz?

Enhance your file-copy experience with Copywhiz as it let’s you to have more flexibility & more control over the file-copying process. Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

This post will tell you how to copy only new files from the day/date you want.

The benefits of copying only new files

We often spend a lot of our precious time in copying the same set of files everyday or every fewer days in order to take backups. It would be very convenient if we could copy only those files that have been newly added or recently modified after a particular day or date.

Let us look at how this is possible using Robocopy and an alternative software Copywhiz, which does the same thing in a much user friendly manner.

What is Copywhiz?

Enhance your file-copy experience with Copywhiz as it lets you to have more flexibility & more control over the file-copying process. Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

Steps to copy newer files based on date

Using Robocopy

The Robocopy command Robocopy Source [Destination] /maxage:n (where n can be number of days or date of format YYYYMMDD) copies all source files that are newer than the date specified.

For Ex: To copy all the files in the directory ‘E:\data’ that have been added or modified on or after 1st JAN 2018 to the folder ‘E:\backup’, the following command line will be used:

Robocopy / E:\data E:\backup/MAXAGE:20180101

However, these commands are quite confusing and may not be easy to understand for most users. It is easy to achieve this using Copywhiz which is really straightforward and faster.

Using Copywhiz:

Watch a short video that perfectly depicts this feature:

Video Transcription

1. Right-click on the folder from which only new or modified files need to be copied and choose Copywhiz–>Copy from the menu as shown below:

2. Go to the destination folder, right-click on it and select Copywhiz–>Paste Advanced. The advanced settings dialogue box will open.

3. Select the date option a shown in below picture.

Conclusion

This feature is very useful while sharing/uploading only recently modified files, taking backups of just new and modified files especially when there are several files to copy. Thus, Copywhiz proves to be a total saver.